This book Download ePub PDF - The Lover - Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras s childhood this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese l...

This book Download ePub PDF - Moderato cantabile - A distressed young man murders the woman he loves in a caf watched by a large crowd Fascinated by the crime she has witnessed Anne Desbaresdes returns several t...

This book Download ePub PDF - The Ravishing of Lol Stein - Lol Stein is a beautiful young woman securely married settled in a comfortable life and a voyeur Returning with her husband and children to the town where years...

This book Download ePub PDF - The Malady of Death - A man hires a woman to spend several weeks with him by the sea The woman is no one in particular a she a warm moist body with a beating heart the enigma of Othe...

This book Download ePub PDF - Blue Eyes, Black Hair - Emotionally charged sparsely written and vicariously compelling Marguerite Duras s novel centers on the desire of a young man for another man he has only glimps...

This book Download ePub PDF - The War - One of France s greatest novelists offers a remarkable diary of the Nazi occupation of Paris during World War II and of its eventual liberation by the Allies Ce...

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A mesmerising early novel by the author of the international bestseller The Lover that explores the same terrains of Indochina and erotic obsession, A distressed young man murders the woman he loves in a caf watched by a large crowd Fascinated by the crime she has witnessed Anne Desbaresdes returns several times to the scene forming a relationship with a man who also saw the murder and drinking through the afternoon with him as he patiently answers her eager questions Slowly they find themselves being taken over by forces which threaten their own stability br br Moderato Cantabile is a carefully woven tapestry of emotion in which the characters inner lives are reflected by the story s spaces and landscapes, One of France s greatest novelists offers a remarkable diary of the Nazi occupation of Paris during World War II and of its eventual liberation by the Allies Celebrating the th anniversary of the liberation this extraordinary diary by the author of The Lover is a haunting portrait of a time and place New York Times br br Written in and first published in Duras s riveting account of life in Paris during the Nazi occupation and the first months of liberation depicts the harrowing realities of World War II era France with a rich conviction enhanced by a spare almost arid technique Julian Barnes The Washington Post Book World Duras by then married and part of a French resistance network headed by Fran ois Mitterand tells of nursing her starving husband back to health after his return from Bergen Belsen interrogating a suspected collaborator and playing a game of cat and mouse with a Gestapo officer who was attracted to her The result is more than one woman s diary it is a haunting portrait of a time and a place and also a state of mind The New York Times, Written in the splendid bareness of her late style these pages are Marguerite Duras s theory of literature comparing a dying fly to the work of style remembering the trance and incurable disarray of writing recreating the last moments of a British pilot shot during World War II and buried next to her house or else letting out a magisterial so what To question six decades of story telling all the essays together operate as a deceitful yet indispensable confession